Do people qualify for the ascension today?

Question: Is there nowadays people who have reached such a level that people have ascended? We know from a previous dispensation that it was quite rare that people reached the level to ascend. Will people nowadays reach such a level that they can ascend? Do we have people who ascend, who reach ascension, nowadays?

Answer from Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels (July 2013):

If you look at the total number of people on earth, and the number of people ascending, then you can say that reaching the level where you qualify for the ascension is quite rare. Yet you also know there has been a requirement for some time that at least one person from earth should ascend every year.

During the last two to three decades the number of people ascending has actually grown. This is partly due to the fact that at this time – where we are still transitioning in consciousness between the Piscean and the Aquarian consciousness – many people who had reached a high level of maturity have volunteered to come into embodiment at this time in order to facilitate this transition.

Thus, there are more people ascending in these years and there are more people walking the earth who have attained a level of consciousness where they have either qualified for the ascension or they are likely to qualify at the end of this lifetime. There are indeed quite a number of people who have followed ascended master teachings for several decades and who have been diligent and giving their decrees – and first of all using the teachings to shift their consciousness – who have qualified, or are close to qualifying for their ascension.